Most likely it would, unless your company has absolutely no data classification scheme nor rules about where can information about company or client can be stored, both in terms of contracts between your company and their clients or local regulation that might apply to them.
Obsidian being local and storing data on my computer is the sole reason I can use it in a professional context.
I think most corporate restrictions are not so much about data. Data exfiltration can get managed based on volume of traffic, or it will be relatively small data movements that will not be as valuable.
At my company the limitations are more about installing software which may or may not have backdoors and other such things which create bigger problems. Webapps resolve that by sandboxing everything within the browser, and limiting free, full access to the hard drive.
Are there any plans for this? Paying for Obsidian Sync, the service already has all the notes on the back-end anyway. I would expect it to let me at least view the notes from the browser. This is the only missing thing for me, otherwise Obsidian is better than anything else Iâve used.
The service does not house notes on Obsidian servers - it only syncs between our own individual storage devices.
Iâm always, always for such apps to have a web version. Itâs the ultimate âcross-platformâ solution. I used to be a fan of Bear notes back in the day, and they had overwhelmingly high requests for a web version, which they later launched.
I stopped using Bear for unrelated reasons. But Iâd vote 100% for an Obsidian web version.
Huh? Literally the first line says Obsidian Sync is an add-on service that allows you to store your notes on Obsidian's servers and sync them across your devices privately.:
This isnât correct. Yes, the data is stored on their servers. Including for 30 days after your Sync subscription expires.
(Not that it means sharing this data to the web wouldnât have security implications.)
Best coment of forum, extremily necessary, to use at work
Of cource it would. I can not install any program at my work pc, how do you spect that i use obsidian??
Still no news on this webapp? June 2025
Itâs been mentioned before that it would go against the manifesto. Link to the post.
Doesnât Sync go against the manifesto too then?
Weâre just asking for a webapp to view files that are already in Sync, on Obsidian servers.
Just viewing files would be doable like GitHub.dev, but implementing Obsidian in the browser would be insanely hard. Currently, youâll need something like VNC or KASM workspaces type systems to access it this way (which you can already do). As I said in my comment above, it would be hard to have a web-based system since Obsidianâs internal APIs rely on interfacing with a filesystem (and not an emulated one like from an SMB share). If your âsingle source of truthâ is Obsidian Sync though, it would be cool to be able to interface with that store with some access control. I would use Obsidian Sync in corporate if we could limit the access.
Putting Obsidian in the Browser would get people assuming multi-user or multi-device scenarios, and this complicates things. I currently use Obsidian Git and a GitHub repo as my single source of truth, and I edit things from GitHub.dev when I need to from a browser. The plugins and interactivity is the hard part since it needs a filesystem.
Iâve got the solution though. Hereâs how you could actually get this working, and you could sell this service off or to Obsidian.md. This would allow you to work with Obsidian in the browser, in corporate settings, and with multiple users on the system at the same time despite it interfacing with a filesystem.
This is the only way I could see Obsidian in the web without absolutely overhauling the Obsidian application or plugin ecosystem and approach.
Iâm not a developer, but AFAIK for security reasons web browsers donât have access to your file system, so Iâm not sure it would even be possible for a web app to manipulate a vault of local files like the obsidian app can
EDIT: Thatâs basically what the comment above is saying, sorry for not reading xD
Technically chromium browsers can access the actual file system with permissions (although you have to grant it every time the site is opened, see vscode.dev), however, that isnât implemented on Firefox and Safari AFAIK.
I am also in favor of this.
I registered an account just to add in a use case I havenât seen in this thread: Game Assist. For those who havenât had a lightbulb moment, letâs lay down some background info: Game Assist is a recent first-party widget for the Xbox Game Bar in Windows 11, and Xbox Game Bar is an overlay that can open over any fullscreen app without alt-tabbing to another program. Widgets running on this overlay can be pinned and they will stay on top of the screen semi-transparently. And the Game Assist widget is a browser.
Although Microsoft intended Game Assist to be used a tool to aid gamers who typically play games in fullscreen, it can run anything the Edge browser can. If anything wasnât an overlayable widget before, they are now thanks to the Game Assist widget. So while Notepad is not a Game Bar widget, I can take note in the middle of using any application by calling up the Game Bar overlay, access a note-taking app in Game Assist, write down some notes and pin Game Assist semi-transparently as a reference against the app Iâm using⌠if only said note-taking app runs in a browser.
Obsidianâs inability to be accessed in a browser is the only barrier standing in the way of this use case. I resent having to use the Notion web app for this. It works, but I resent the fact that itâs not offline. I think this is where you come in, Obsidian team. I am not requesting a live service to host my Obsidian vaults. I am requesting a local web interface to serve up my local vaults to a localhost port so that they become accessible to a browser and by extension - an overlayable widget in Windows. Everything still stays local, nothing moves off my computer, perfectly aligned with the spirit of Obsidian so we can skip that entire conversation.
Using Obsidian on a Chromebook, via the linux app; vault is on google drive so that I can also use Obsidian on Windows
Something not to forget is that both mobile and desktop app are heavy (near 1Gb) and for devices with small or nearly full storage capacity, itâs still one more Gb available.
Common already! Obsidian is perfect but No online access.
I use it for snippet manager.
Evernote search sucks, cacher (copy code button, replace tab with space, sick!)
â NEED to have online version. Canât install on my work laptop.
I really only made an account because I wanted this. Given this has been open for 6 years, theres definitely a lot of demand for it.
You wouldnât need cloud storage, you can just use localstorage and Obsidian as is, is just an Electron app so it shouldnât bee that hard honestly.
If someone was dedicated enough, they could extract the code from the app (not decompiled, extract) and hammer it until it works. Yes the code is minified and obfuscated but who said itâd be easy.